Rathma
Quick Reference
Title Monarch of Death Race Progenitor Rank One of the Twelve Monarchs Child Nirek
Biography
Rathma is one of the Twelve Monarchs—the most powerful Progenitors in existence. Known as the Monarch of Death, he commands authority over death and necromancy on a cosmic scale.
His son Nirek serves the Tower of Art in Basque as one of the Nine Liches, though Nirek has inherited an “outdated sense of honor” that sets him apart from other Progenitors.
Appearance & Personality
To gaze upon Rathma was to stare into the hollow socket of eternity itself. His form, if it could truly be called such, seemed less a body and more a gathering of shadows that had forgotten how to disperse—a silhouette cut from the fabric between worlds, draped in robes that whispered with the voices of ten thousand departed souls. Where others had eyes, Rathma possessed twin pools of absolute darkness, yet within those depths burned the cold certainty of one who had walked the threshold between life and death so many times that the boundary had become meaningless. His presence carried the weight of eons, the air around him perpetually cold, tasting of ancient crypts and forgotten tombs.
The Monarch of Death moved through existence with the patience of entropy itself. He spoke rarely, but when he did, his voice resonated like the final breath of dying stars—soft, inevitable, and utterly without malice. For Rathma, death was neither enemy nor friend but simply another state of being, as natural as sleep, as certain as dawn. He had sired Nirek in some unfathomable age, and from that union came a child blessed with his father’s mastery over death yet cursed with a conscience—an “outdated sense of honor” that the other Monarchs found quaint. Rathma himself viewed his son’s peculiarity with something approaching amusement, the closest he came to genuine emotion.
Allegiances & Relationships
- Nirek — Son
- Twelve Monarchs — Member
Campaign Chronicle
Session 10: The Gathering
Mentioned as Nirek’s father during the Progenitor gathering in Waterdeep.
DM Notes
- One of the Twelve Monarchs (highest tier of Progenitors)
- Nirek’s father - potential connection point
- Has not appeared directly in campaign